Our Values

The IMA is committed to honoring and operating from these values, thus enabling heartfelt, honest, authentic and inspirational work that connects with people and offers a light for others:

1.  Collaboration and teamwork: The IMA is committed to working collaboratively.  It recognizes the importance of community-wide consensus-building and democratic decision-making as central to good governance and project management.

2.  People-centeredness: The IMA values people as the center of healthcare.  It acknowledges all people as being unique and having unique gifts to offer the organization.  It acknowledges people’s personal responsibility for the decisions they make and the lives they lead.  It values the wellness of those involved in the organization, and supports their learning and growth.

3.  Sustainability: The IMA is committed to environmental, financial and social sustainability in its operations, projects, personnel policy and resource management.  The IMA acknowledges the sustainability is the cornerstone to both a healthy organization and a healthy planet.

4.  Diversity:  The IMA embraces all healing traditions, and is committed to promoting and celebrating diversity of age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and culture, within its organization and within the healthcare sector.

5.  Flexibility and creativity:  In this time of change, the IMA is committed to maintaining flexibility and creativity in its organizational development, problem solving, and development of healthcare solutions.

6.  Transparency:  The IMA is committed to maintaining transparency in its affairs as a basis for healthy governance and public accountability.

7.  Fun: The IMA is committed to maintaining an organizational culture that is fun, comfortable, and unpretentious.

8.  Community: The IMA is committed to building, nurturing, supporting and celebrating community within its organization, among the healthcare professions, and in society as a whole.

9.  Humility: The IMA acknowledges the dangers of healthcare dogmas, and acknowledges the importance of open-mindedness and humility.

10.  Vision: The IMA is deeply committed to nurturing and working towards a vision of affordable, accessible, effective and sustainable healthcare for all that embraces all the world’s healing traditions.